Causes
What are the causes of the revolt?
Loss of jobs for people because the machines.
What is coal?
Natural fuel from the earth.
Who were the Ludites and what did they do?
People who burned down factories needing more money.
Why would rich factory owners not give fair working conditions for proletarians?
Greediness.
What is the meaning of Proletarian?
A worker.
What is the cause of child labor?
Their family needs the money so they send their kids to work.
What were draft animals used for?
Carrying cargo and goods to different places.
What did Charles dickens write about?
A child labor and harsh conditions in factories.
What was a common job for poor families in the industrial revolution?
Coal Mining.
What is the meaning of impersonal?
Having no connection to people; lacking feeling.
What are some of the main things that capitalism did?
It made the rich, richer and the poor, poorer.
What could a spinning jenny do?
It could spin 3 threads at once.
Who invented the cotton gin?
Eli Whitney.
What new economic order(s) were created by the unfairness of the industrial revolution where everyone is equal?
Communism/Socialism (Both answers are accepted).
What is the meaning of inflation?
A rise in prices and a fall in the purchasing value of money.
What was the need for colonies?
They provided raw materials, natural resources, and cheap labor.
What invention made slavery go back up after a decline?
Cotton Gin by Eli Whitney.
Which 2 people supported socialism and communism?
Marx and Owen.
Who was a big activist against the unfairness going on between the rich and the poor in the industrial revolution?
Karl Marx.
What is the meaning of Social democracy?
A system of representative government.
What were Karl Marx thoughts about capitalism?
As he was there he released that people just kept getting richer and poor people kept getting poorer.
How did a water wheel work?
It generated energy by a spinning wheel in the water.
What was the difference between Marx and Owen?
Marx thought it could only be done if there was violence and Owen thought people would voluntarily give up money.
What did Adam Smith publish?
The wealth of nations.
What is the meaning of biotechnology?
The use of living things, such as cells and bacteria, to make useful products.